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<title><![CDATA[George Monbiot - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14540.xml</link><description><![CDATA[George Monbiot]]></description><category domain="14540">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Why Do Americans Keep Voting for Trump?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/29/donald-trump-americans-us-culture-republican</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>George Monbiot</author>
							<description><![CDATA[US culture is an incubator of 'extrinsic values'. Nobody embodies them like the Republican front runner.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No Set of Crimes Justifies Another]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/18/rules-of-war-israel-hamas-crimes-violence</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>George Monbiot</author>
							<description><![CDATA[No set of crimes justifies another. To succumb to this principle would mean a never-ending cycle of violence, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Thinking Big on Climate Change]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/20/us-war-footing-1941-climate-emergency-earth-pearl-harbor</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 24 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>George Monbiot</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The story of how the US entered the second world war should be on everyone's minds as Cop26 approaches, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Lab-Grown Food Will Destroy Farming - &amp; Save the Planet]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/08/lab-grown-food-destroy-farming-save-planet</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>George Monbiot</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Scientists are replacing crops and livestock with food made in factories from microbes and water. It may save humanity's bacon, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['The Will of the People' Is a Myth in British Democracy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/24/will-of-the-people-british-democracy</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Oct 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>George Monbiot</author>
							<description><![CDATA[British people are fundamentally disempowered by our political system. Other countries show that there's another way, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Only Rebellion Will Prevent an Ecological Apocalypse]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/15/rebellion-prevent-ecological-apocalypse-civil-disobedience</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>George Monbiot</author>
							<description><![CDATA[No one is coming to save us. Mass civil disobedience is essential to force a political response, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Fear That Lies Behind Aggressive Masculinity]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/16/men-masculinity-gillette-advertisement</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>George Monbiot</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why do so many men love Jordan Peterson and hate the Gillette ad? If they'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re truly strong they don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t need to prove their virility.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Earth's in a Death Spiral. Only Radical Action Can Save Us]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/14/earth-death-spiral-radical-action-climate-breakdown</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>George Monbiot</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Climate breakdown could be rapid and unpredictable. We can no longer tinker around the edges and hope minor changes will avert collapse]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Surprising Truth Behind Our New Age of Obesity]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/15/age-of-obesity-shaming-overweight-people</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>George Monbiot</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s not that we'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re eating more, that we exercise less, or that we lack willpower. The shaming of overweight people has to stop]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S.'s New Revolutionaries Show How the Left Can Win]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/11/america-left-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-new-york-primary</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>George Monbiot</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The little-known history of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s victory in a New York primary hints at the coming transformation]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Was Right. The Rest of the G7 Were Wrong]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/13/trump-nafta-g7-sunset-clause-trade-agreement</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>George Monbiot</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In arguing for a sunset clause to the Nafta trade agreement, this odious man is exposing the corruption of liberal democracy]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Let Murderers Suppress Our Common Humanity]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/23/psychopathic-murderers-manchester-attack-terrorists</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>George Monbiot</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is a blow to the heart: an atrocity whose purpose was to kill and maim as many children and teenagers as possible. No parent, hearing the voices of those'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' still seeking news of their children,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' could fail to imagine the frantic play of hope and despair, the terrible wrenching of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Budget Cuts Hurt the Poorest Americans]]></title>
							<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/01/us-debt-deal-tea-party</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>George Monbiot</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There are two ways of cutting a deficit: raising taxes or reducing spending. Raising taxes means taking money from the rich. Cutting spending means taking money from the poor. Not in all cases of course: some taxation is regressive; some state spending takes money from ordinary citizens...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Tea Party Movement is Deluded]]></title>
							<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/oct/25/tea-party-koch-brothers</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>George Monbiot</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Tea Party movement is remarkable in two respects. It is one of the biggest exercises in false consciousness the world has seen - and the biggest Astroturf operation in history. These accomplishments are closely related.An Astroturf campaign is a fake grassroots movement: it purports...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Climate Enlightenment Dead?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/sep/20/climate-change-negotiations-failure</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>George Monbiot</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The closer it comes, the worse it looks. The best outcome anyone now expects from December's climate summit in Mexico is that some delegates might stay awake during the meetings. When talks fail once, as they did in Copenhagen,  governments lose interest. They don't want to be associated...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Climategate Inquiry Vindicates Phil Jones]]></title>
							<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2010/jul/07/russell-inquiry-i-was-wrong</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>George Monbiot</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Many of these missives, perhaps revealing more about the senders than they intend, involve promises to insert implausibly large items of military hardware into the recipient's anus. At first, years ago, they alarmed me. After a while, realising that most of the silver-tongued chevaliers...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Battling Public Hostility to Climate Science]]></title>
							<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2010/mar/08/belief-in-climate-change-science</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>George Monbiot</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Only Obama Can Rescue These Climate Talks]]></title>
							<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2009/dec/16/copenhagen-deal-barack-obama-speech</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>George Monbiot</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Everyone seems to be waiting for someone to break the dam. And everyone knows who that someone is. Because of the size and weight of the United States, and the moral power invested in the current president, it is Barack Obama, and Barack Obama alone, who can rescue the climate...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Battle to Redefine Humanity]]></title>
							<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2009/dec/14/climate-change-battle-redefine-humanity</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>George Monbiot</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This is the moment at which we turn and face ourselves. Here, in the plastic corridors and crowded stalls, among impenetrable texts and withering procedures, humankind decides what it is and what it will become. It chooses whether to continue living as it has done, until it must make a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Climate Denial Industry is Out to Dupe Public]]></title>
							<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2009/dec/07/climate-change-denial-industry</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>George Monbiot</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When you survey the trail of wreckage left by the climate emails crisis, three things become clear. The first is the tendency of those who claim to be the champions of climate science to minimise their importance. Those who have most to lose if the science is wrong'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' have perversely...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Guant'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¡').';'namo Makes Us All Less Safe]]></title>
							<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/may/13/guantanamo.humanrights</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>George Monbiot</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Real Crisis is Global Hunger]]></title>
							<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/apr/15/food.biofuels</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>George Monbiot</author>
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